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by pelasaco 4y ago
Just reading how you write, I can Tell you: you are an average, lonely, angry and spoiled dev. IMO, Twitter is a better place for you to voice such rants. For sure I assume that everyone did their homework and found a great company to work.
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by pelasaco 4y ago
I was there in 2020/2021 and declined their offer. Too many distractions, the company didn't look like concentrated in the business but more in sjw activities. Being minority myself, I didn't feel comfortable having to go thr
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by pelasaco 4y ago
In another hand, employees try to do as less as possible for the money they get. How many devs get hired as senior dev, because their experience (in number of years) but then turns out they are code monkey ready to really work 3 hours/
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by pelasaco 4y ago
I don't assume that we are friends, but your manager knows who performs and who doesn't. So it's matter of saving his own head. So, become effective and expert and so you will always be able to get your salary corrected..and
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by pelasaco 4y ago
> new guy got hired and they;re making 10k more than me and I've been here 5 years Your mistake is to assume that you (being there 5 year) is doing your work well and over the expectations, becoming an important piece to your team.
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by pelasaco 4y ago
´git blame!
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by pelasaco 4y ago
but that's only maybe true during the hiring process. If you work well, after some months, it will be corrected.
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by pelasaco 4y ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/fire-blame-ceo-tech-employee...
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by pelasaco 4y ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/fire-blame-ceo-tech-employee...
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by pelasaco 4y ago
I've got already a message of a former colleague working on Gitlab. He wants to leave. He thinks thats better to negotiate a salary while in a job, than when you are desperate running against the clock. We are going to take him back.
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by pelasaco 4y ago
exactly, "Let's annoy people until they don't write anything on the chat anymore". From Wikipedia, the definition of "inclusive language" is: "Inclusive language avoids expressions that are considered to e
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by pelasaco 4y ago
> the goal in capitalism is increase profits, not well being of people. I thought that in 2023 would be clear to everyone that only capitalist countries were able to improve the well being of the people. I see 0 boats from Miami to Cuba,
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by pelasaco 4y ago
as they are liberating Ukraine right now from Nazis.. right.
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by pelasaco 4y ago
exactly, Ukraine now, Ukraine back in the days, Chechnya, you name it.
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by pelasaco 4y ago
> it's not colonial What a lazy answer! for sure, it is colonial. During the imperial time, during soviet time and now in the east of Ukraine. In all periods, Russia tried to destroy the local population/settlements and tried t
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by pelasaco 4y ago
> Lets not get carried away thinking we are specially noble. The guy in Nebraska maintaining one of key dependencies of your project thanklessly disagrees[1]. Well, we build stuff. we praise the knowledge. We were called geeks, hackers,
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by pelasaco 4y ago
what insane idea, don't believe people still citing Marx in 2023, coming from a communist country, I can just laugh hard on you. I'm working on a open source software, and our money depends directly on our work. Our CTO works side
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by pelasaco 4y ago
I don't remember to see people doing over 40 hours work/week since the 90s. Today, people start at 10, go lunch at 12:00, and 16:00 they want to go home.. At least in Europe.
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by pelasaco 4y ago
people who work in trading or finance would never write open source code. Why should we compare our profession with them?
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by pelasaco 4y ago
I don't have to defend any company out there, but that's not how in my 20+ years experience, i think it works. You do your work well, you show professionalism, does your manager think that you are important for the team? You are w
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by pelasaco 4y ago
would be nice if we could have a way to navigate just in the old web...
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by pelasaco 4y ago
maybe then people start to go back to their lives, have real life hobbies, start a family, engage themselves in their communities...
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by pelasaco 4y ago
Funny how every department has the same aligned discourse. From https://www.coe.int/en/web/impact-convention-human-rights/ri... Governments can only interfere with these rights when it is specifically allowed
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by pelasaco 4y ago
> A lot of bureaucrats and legislators are instead just disorganized, technically clueless, and listen to the loudest and most organized group. Which tends to be intelligence or law enforcement. I agree with you. We are too dumb, to self
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by pelasaco 4y ago
> Anyone who is really into something illegal will use something alternative anyway. Thats the same argument for less gun control.
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by pelasaco 4y ago
if "we encourage journalists and citizens in all EU countries to question their governments and urge them to vote no." would help then Julian Assange/Snowden would have a different life today. Just get prepared to circumvent
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by pelasaco 4y ago
Just to play the advocate's advocate here: When the internet became so safe? They push, we push back. They block, we circumvent. That was always about that. We old hackers are used to that. Nothing will work out of the box, and it will
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by pelasaco 4y ago
An old saying: worse than finding a bug inside a fruit while eating it, is to find only the half of the bug.
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by pelasaco 4y ago
You are using a service, that must pay for infrastructure and personnel. How do you think a on-off purchase would cover it. Your salary you want every month on your account, but for the others, nah, not so important

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